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“What is the purpose of resisting corporate globalization if not to protect the obscure, the ineffable, the unmarketable, the unmanageable, the local, the poetic and the eccentric? So they need to be practiced, celebrated and studied too, right now.” Rebecca Solnit

Much like buses, you wait for articles to come out and then - three come along at once! Huge gratitude to the editors who commissioned these pieces: Karen Boyle, who invited me to contribute to the portfolio on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" at 40 for Feminist Media Studies; to Julia Cooper and Mallory Andrews who greenlit my musings on Tilda Swinton for cléo 3.3: GRACE (and made Tilda a cover star in the process); and to Alexandra Hidalgo for making me a Featured Member at agnès films, where I talk about how Labyrinth made me a feminist.

Fifteen years of research have resulted in my new book, Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris), which I'll be launching at the BFI on Monday 26th October. You can learn more about the films included, upcoming news and screenings, reviews, and resources via the book's site. EXCITEMENT!

Film feminism is a hot topic this autumn, with the release of SUFFRAGETTE, the Onwards and Outwards touring season of contemporary British women's indie cinema, which I blogged about for the ICA, and - of course - the November release of POLITICAL ANIMALS: THE NEW FEMINIST CINEMA. Launch details to come (and they will be as fabulous as the cover), but in the run-up, I'll be panelling, chairing & talking all over...

Things are looking busy, with a combination of readings, screenings and global feminist revolution -- including running the awesome Raising Films crowdfunder to change the film industry for working parents. You can find me this summer at the following:

My third solo collection, (O), is out now from the wonderful Arc Publications, champions of the alternative and far-reaching in poetry. I'm very proud and honoured to be part of their list! You can buy the book directly from Arc with a celebration-of-publication discount. Thanks to Warwick Arts Centre for displaying the book so beautifully.

Extremely proud and excited to be a contributor to Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Anna Backman Rogers and the legendary Laura Mulvey. I'll (nervously) be talking about my chapter on queer feminist film theory next Saturday, 25th April, 2.30, at Birkbeck Cinema in London. The event is FREE, but do reserve a place.

The following Friday 1st May, 7pm, I'll be at the Horse Hospital in London, co-hosting Club des Femmes' and Verso Books night of films and conversation for the re-launch of Shulamith Firestone's Dialectic of Sex. It's sold out (!) but there are a few tickets available on the door. We'll be screening Elisabeth Subrin's SHULIE (1997), and I interviewed her for The F-Word, online soon.

On Wednesday May 6th, 7pm, I'll be at the QUAD in Derby, at the Film Festival, taking part in a Sight & Sound panel on female film critics - I'll be talking about the brilliant bell hooks, who I wrote about for S&S here.

In October, I interviewed Clare Stewart, the British Film Institute's Director of Festivals, for Sight & Sound, about the dramatic increase in the representation of female-identified directors across the festival – and subsequently read Nick James' editorial in S&S Nov 2014 proferring a "modest invitation" to women writers to correct the magazine's gender imbalance. Result? An open letter, penned by myself and Ania Ostrowska, with 80 signatories, and a comment piece calling for a more ambitious and cohesive plan to end the "chilly climate" for women in film criticism and reflect the plenitude of feminist and female-identified filmmaking. What happens next? Watch this space.

The amazing ADA & AFTER: WOMEN DO SCIENCE [FICTION] weekender begins tomorrow, Thurs 20th Nov, with a screening of cult classic TANK GIRL at the ICA – still the only studio superhero film with a female lead! I interviewed its amazing and inspiring director Rachel Talalay, hot off her back-to-back Dr. Who Season 8 finale episodes, about working with Courtney Love and Ice-T, hiring Catherine Hardwicke, and what she's up to next.

Very excited to be participating in the BFI's Days of Fear and Wonder science fiction season! As part of Club des Femmes, I'm co-curating the ADA & AFTER: WOMEN DO SCIENCE (FICTION) weekender, 20-23 November, at the ICA, the Electric Cinema Shoreditch and Hackney Picturehouse. With Tank Girl, Ada Lovelace, Björk, Lieutenant Uhura, Katniss Everdeen, Ottica Zero, Mary Shelley, co-dependent lesbian space aliens and Maisie the Space Dog all in attendance cinematically, we will also be joined by Bidisha, Liesel Schwartz, Campbell X, Nalo Hopkinson, Maja Borg, Sophie Robinson and Isabel Waidner. More special guests tba!

Fri 21-Sun 23 November: Women Do Science (Fiction), an ICA film weekender, part of the BFI's Days of Fear and Wonder season – during which I'll also be giving a talk about Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden) as part of the Afrofuturism weekender, and a BFI LIbrary talk (probably) titled "I'd Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess," about cyberfeminism and automatic women. Yep, fembots, handmaids, River vs. Reavers: all the good stuff.

And I'll also be at the BFI on Fri 1 Aug for We Could Be Heroes, the launch event for the Teenage Kicks season, where I'll be talking about lesbian girlhood and the importance of school washrooms to teen cinema and TV.